Bug#649937: usb: timeouts trying to mount thumb drive, "device descriptor read/64, error -60"

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

found 649937 linux-2.6/2.6.32-46 , linux/3.2.30-1
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Gabriel VLASIU wrote:

> Well, I re-tested everything today with kernel 2.6.32 and 3.2.0. Same 
> thing.

I assume that means 3.2.30-1 and 2.6.32-46 are affected.  Thanks,
marking so.

>       I saw that there is an experimental kernel 3.5 and I gave it a try.
> Well, there are good news and bad news. The good news is that the usb 
> problem is gone. Tested with 2 usb-drives several times (I think any 
> combination of usb ports + usb drive(s)). The bad news is I cannot boot 
> this kernel. mdadm does not want to assemble the raid arrays, and mount 
> also does not work (old version of mdadm/util-linux?).

Maybe you are running into some variation on
<http://bugs.debian.org/688711>.  When I ran into it, I gave up on
debugging and switched to 3.6-rc7.  Hopefully there will be a package
of 3.6 soon to try.

How did you test the usb problem without being able to boot?

Jonathan